x, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Offers a radical critique of much of the recent writing on and by men, raising important questions about embodiment, agency and the varieties of masculinity

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-230) and index

Dislocating masculinity : gender, power and anthropology / Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne -- Missing masculinity? prostitutes' clients in Alicante, Spain / Angie Hart -- A broken mirror : masculine sexuality in Greek ethnography / Peter Loizos -- Variant masculinities, variant virginities : rethinking 'honor and shame' / Nancy Lindisfarne -- 'We're here, we're queer, and we're not going shopping' : changing gay male identities in contemporary Britain / David Forrest -- Gendered identities and gender ambiguity among travestis in Salvador, Brazil / Andrea Cornwall -- Pandora unbound : a feminist critique of Foucault's History of sexuality / Lin Foxhall -- Men don't go to the moon : language, space and masculinities in Zimbabwe / Chenjerai Shire -- An economy of affect : objectivity, masculinity and the gendering of police work / Bonnie McElhinny -- The 'White Negro' revisited : race and masculinities in south London / Les Back -- 'Real true boys' : moulding the cadets of imperialism / Helen Kanitkar -- The paradoxes of masculinity : some thoughts on segregated societies / Deniz Kandiyoti

Self-Renewing 2017

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